NDLI: Verifiable Distributed Oblivious Transfer and Mobile Agent Security

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Zhong, Sheng Richard Yang, Yang
Copyright Year	2006
Abstract	The mobile agent is a fundamental building block of the mobile computing paradigm. In mobile agent security, oblivious transfer (OT) from a trusted party can be used to protect the agent’s privacy and the hosts’ privacy. In this paper, we introduce a new cryptographic primitive called Verifiable Distributed Oblivious Transfer (VDOT), which allows us to replace a single trusted party with a group of threshold trusted servers. The design of VDOT uses a novel technique called consistency verification of encrypted secret shares. VDOT protects the privacy of both the sender and the receiver against malicious attacks of the servers. We also show the design of a system to apply VDOT to protect the privacy of mobile agents. Our design partitions an agent into the general portion and the security-sensitive portion. We also implement the key components of our system. As far as we know, this is the first effort to implement a system that protects the privacy of mobile agents. Our preliminary evaluation shows that protecting mobile agents not only is possible, but also can be implemented efficiently.
Starting Page	201
Ending Page	210
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISSN	1383469X
Journal	Mobile Networks and Applications
Volume Number	11
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	15728153
Language	English
Publisher	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Publisher Date	2006-03-31
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	mobile agent privacy oblivious transfer verifiable secret sharing Computer Communication Networks Electronic and Computer Engineering Business Information Systems
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Computer Networks and Communications Information Systems Hardware and Architecture Software

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